Biker saved by air ambulance backs call for helipad at King’s Hospital in London

 
Support: Tony Gillam and Air Ambulance paramedic Lewis Price of the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance

A motorcyclist whose life was saved after he was flown by helicopter to a London trauma hospital today backed its £3.5 million campaign to build a helipad.

Tony Gillam, 66, a company director, was taken by Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance to King’s College hospital for emergency brain surgery after coming off his motorbike near Sevenoaks.

The hospital wants helicopters to land on its roof rather than at nearby Ruskin Park. This would reduce the time to get patients into A&E from 25 minutes to five minutes.

Mr Gillam, from Oxted, said he was flown to the hospital, in Denmark Hill, after treatment at the scene.

He told the Standard: “You are talking to me nine months on from a critical accident. I have seen many people in a similar situation and they have not made anywhere near the progress I have made. This is purely because of the air ambulance.”

Tim Smart, King’s College chief executive, said: “A few minutes can make all the difference.”

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